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• Atchafalaya backwater flooding to linger for weeks Play Video

  March 20, 2019 8:33 PM

  PIERRE PART - Atchafalaya Basin residents already dealing with high water will see little change for several weeks. The backwater flooding is expected to last for another 45 days said Assumption Parish Homeland Security Director John Boudreaux. "Unfortunately not knowing what the weather brings in the next 45 days,... more »

• Oil company to pay fines over 3 Atchafalaya oil spills

  April 23, 2016 3:27 PM

  NEW ORLEANS - Federal prosecutors say a Lafayette-based oil company has agreed to pay more than $700,000 in fines in connection with three crude oil spills in the Atchafalaya River basin. The U.S. Justice Department announced Friday it had entered a consent decree with ORB Exploration LLC. The company is... more »

• Jindal holds command group meeting to discuss possible flooding Play Video

  January 8, 2016 2:57 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Gov. Bobby Jindal held a Unified Command Group meeting with state agency leaders and emergency response officials Friday to assess current and future response efforts to flooding of the Mississippi River and Atchafalaya River. Gov.-elect John Bel Edwards and his incoming team were present at the... more »

• Victim identified in deadly I-10 big rig pileup

  December 2, 2015 11:21 AM

  RAMAH - State Police identified the victim in a deadly crash on I-10 as a Tennessee man whose 18-wheeler ran into the trailers of two other big rigs on the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge. Investigators said 42-year-old Karl Lindberg of Crossville, Tenn. died at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital... more »

• I-10E closure caps day of delays, previews more to come

  December 1, 2015 7:06 PM

  PORT ALLEN - Louisiana State Police closed I-10 East entirely between Lafayette and Baton Rouge after a wreck involving multiple vehicles Tuesday evening. The closure capped a day filled with wrecks, congestion, and delays for drivers trying to travel between the two cities. At one point traffic was backed... more »

• I-10 East reopens on Basin Bridge after wreck

  August 25, 2015 12:33 PM

  RAMAH - Louisiana State Police said a wreck closed I-10 East over the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge Tuesday morning for more than an hour. The wreck happened at mile marker 131, several miles west of Ramah. The Department of Transportation and Development later closed that side of the interstate at... more »